Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Ashiya from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Ashiya
Italian tasting menus and tempura omakase feature Japanese ingredients and seasonal cooking. The drinks programmes include wine lists and sake.
Imai in Kōmitsu-cho serves modern Italian tasting menus at a counter, incorporating Japanese ingredients into its cooking. Its wine list sits alongside a sake programme. The restaurant has Tabelog Bronze recognition and selection for Tabelog Italian WEST 100.
raffinato in Ashiya serves Italian tasting menus and set menus with seasonal Japanese ingredients and an emphasis on fish. Its Tabelog Italian WEST 100 selection accompanies a sommelier-led extensive wine list, a wine list and private-room dining.
Tempura Sakurabito in Ashiya serves light, airy tempura using seasonal ingredients fried in Taihaku sesame oil. Its wine list includes a sake programme. Omakase follows a single-course format at an eight-seat counter, with Tabelog Bronze recognition.
Japanese dining ranges from sushi omakase to kaiseki and à la carte soba. Sake accompanies the sushi and soba, while the kaiseki restaurant has a standard wine programme.
Kiichi in Omasucho, Ashiya is an eight-seat sushi counter serving omakase and tasting menus centred on seasonal seafood. Its minimal wine programme accompanies a sake programme. The restaurant has selection for Tabelog Sushi WEST 100 in 2025.
This kaiseki restaurant in Ashiya serves Japanese omakase and tasting menus in a refined setting. Grilled preparations and handmade wagashi desserts are features of its cooking, and the restaurant has a standard wine programme.
Do Sanjin Ashiya ten in Ashiya serves buckwheat noodles à la carte in a compact soba restaurant. The room seats 28, with sake and shochu accompanying the noodles. It has Tabelog Soba WEST 100 selection for 2025.
The neighbourhood Ashiya has the largest concentration in our guide, with 10 venues. Uchide includes French cooking and a kushikatsu counter. Elsewhere, Imai serves Italian tasting menus in Kōmitsu-cho, and Kiichi serves sushi omakase in Omasucho, Ashiya.
Ashiya has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Its dining awards include Tabelog Bronze recognition for Imai and Tempura Sakurabito, Italian WEST 100 selection for raffinato, Sushi WEST 100 selection for Kiichi and Soba WEST 100 selection for Do Sanjin Ashiya ten.
Imai in Kōmitsu-cho and raffinato in Ashiya serve Italian tasting menus. Tempura Sakurabito in Ashiya serves tempura omakase at an eight-seat counter. Kiichi in Omasucho, Ashiya serves sushi tasting menus and omakase centred on seasonal seafood, with a sake programme.
raffinato and Ristorante Bellini, both in Ashiya, have extensive wine lists and wine lists. raffinato has sommelier-led service alongside Italian tasting menus and set menus. Ristorante Bellini serves seasonal Italian cuisine in a detached house overlooking the river.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Best of Ashiya
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Selected entries from the current guide for Ashiya.
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Kushi Katsu A-bon holds a Tabelog Silver Award and a score of 4.40, placing it among the Kansai region's most recognised kushikatsu counters. Set in residential Ashiya, the 19-seat room operates on two fixed seatings nightly, with a particular emphasis on fish-led skewers and a considered wine programme that extends to BYO with corkage. Reservations open on the first of each month for up to three months ahead.
Ashiya, Japan
In the upscale Hyogo city of Ashiya, Gui's Burger applies the precision of Japanese fine dining to a format built around Wagyu beef, artisan brioche, and house sauces. The patties use fresh-ground premium beef, and the buns are made by a local bakery to specification. The burger can also be ordered at Kitan In in Osaka, listed among the World's 101 Best Steak Restaurants.
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Imai places Ashiya’s Italian dining in the high-spend, reservation-only tier, with Tabelog Bronze recognition in 2024, 2025, and 2026, plus selection for Tabelog Italian WEST 100 in 2023 and 2025. The appeal is not big-city spectacle; it is the Kansai habit of treating Italian technique as a framework for local seasonality, careful sourcing, and controlled pacing.
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Baan thai ASHIYA gives Ashiya’s dining map a Thai counterpoint to its French-Italian, bakery, soba and hotel-restaurant habits. Its 2023 and 2024 Tabelog 100 selections for Asian and ethnic cuisine in West Japan place it in a regional conversation, while the format remains useful for families, friends and take-out rather than formal ceremony.
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BACKEREI BIOBROT brings Ashiya’s bakery culture into a stricter whole-grain register: organic ingredients, stone-milled pesticide-free whole wheat for nearly every bread, and a takeout-only format that keeps the focus on daily loaves rather than café theatre. Its Tabelog Bread WEST “Tabelog 100” selections in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022 place it inside western Japan’s serious bread conversation, not simply the neighbourhood breakfast circuit.
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Ashiya’s bread culture is quieter than Kobe’s hotel-patisserie circuit, but it rewards early, practical shopping. Bigo no Mise Honten belongs to the city’s everyday boulangerie tier: take-out only, breakfast-friendly, under JPY 999, and recognised in Tabelog’s Bread WEST 100 selection in 2022.
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Ashiya’s waterfront luxury-hotel dining tier has a different rhythm from the city’s compact neighborhood counters: quieter, more formal, and built around occasion dining. Choyuro Ashiya beiko-to kurabu hoteru&supa rizo-to sits in that lane for Chinese cuisine, with a 2026 Tabelog 100 Chinese WEST selection and a dinner spend positioned well above casual Ashiya eating.
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Ashiya’s soba culture rewards restraint, neighborhood regularity, and a shorter distance between craft and daily life than the destination dining circuits of Osaka or Kyoto. Do Sanjin Ashiya ten sits in that register: a 28-seat soba restaurant recognized in Tabelog’s Soba WEST 100 for 2025, with sake and shochu in support rather than a grand tasting-menu frame.
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Kiichi places Ashiya sushi in a small-counter register: precise, ritual-led, and anchored by fish and sake rather than spectacle. Its Tabelog Sushi WEST 100 selection in 2025, along with earlier selections in 2021 and 2022, gives it a clear trust signal within western Japan’s sushi field.
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Ashiya’s bread culture sits closer to daily craft than destination dining, and Pan Time belongs to that low-price, high-precision lane. Its Tabelog 100 Bread WEST 2022 selection, bread-and-sandwich format, take-out service, and sub-JPY 999 average spend make it a sharp counterpoint to the city’s formal restaurant tier.
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Ashiya’s sweets culture rewards precision over spectacle, and Poche du Reve fits that register: a take-out pastry and chocolate address selected for Tabelog Sweets WEST “Tabelog 100” across multiple years. The draw is less about a seated dessert course than the Kansai habit of buying serious cakes and baked goods with the same intent usually reserved for restaurant reservations.
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raffinato places Ashiya’s Italian dining in a Kansai frame: ingredient-led, wine-aware, and more composed than the city’s everyday bakery-and-café circuit. Its Tabelog Italian WEST “Tabelog 100” 2025 selection, private-room format, fish emphasis, and sommelier service make it a serious choice for diners who want Italian cooking filtered through local Japanese expectations of seasonality and restraint.
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Ristorante Bellini places Italian and European cooking inside Ashiya’s polished residential dining culture, where river views, private rooms, and a 48-seat house-restaurant format matter as much as the plate. Its selection for Tabelog Italian WEST “Tabelog 100” in 2025 and 2021 puts it in a documented regional tier rather than the casual neighbourhood category.
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Shokudo Kifune places Ashiya’s izakaya culture in a compact, serious register: 10 seats, counter-led service, and a drinks program noted for sake, shochu and wine. Its selection for Tabelog 100 Izakaya WEST in both 2024 and 2025 gives it a clear trust signal in a city better known to many travellers for polished residential dining than late-night tavern cooking.
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Ashiya’s small-counter tempura culture rewards patience, seasonality, and attention to sequence rather than spectacle. Tempura Sakurabito sits in that serious dinner tier, with an eight-seat counter, a single-course format, Tabelog Award 2026 Bronze recognition, and selection for Tabelog 100 Tempura 2025.
Ashiya, Japan
Ashiya’s bread culture rewards small-format shops where sourcing, fermentation, and morning rhythm matter more than dining-room ceremony. wada belongs in that conversation through its Tabelog Bread WEST “Tabelog 100” selections in 2020 and 2022, a take-out format, and a counter-style bakery setting along the Ashiya River.
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An Italian restaurant in Ashiya's quiet residential quarter, イタリア料理 今井 sits within a city better known for understated precision than culinary spectacle. Ashiya occupies a narrow band between Kobe and Nishinomiya, and its dining culture reflects that positioning: smaller rooms, considered menus, and a preference for craft over volume. For Italian cooking in this register, 今井 is a address worth knowing.
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In the residential calm of Ashiya, シェ・モリ occupies a quietly specific position in the Kansai dining circuit, a French-leaning address in a city better known for understated wealth than culinary fanfare. Ashiya sits between the more trafficked restaurant corridors of Osaka and Kobe, which makes finding a kitchen of this seriousness here a matter of knowing where to look.
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In the quiet residential quarter of Ashiya's Omasucho district, 壱（にのまえ）represents the kind of address that Kansai's serious dining community keeps close.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Ashiya.
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Ashiya
Selected entries from the current guide for Ashiya.
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Ashiya
Selected entries from the current guide for Ashiya.
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